Emilly Kamusiime
Uganda 2010
Emilly Kamusiime is a forester with a heart for female farmers in Uganda. She is studying gender and food security, including ways to increase food production through agroforestry technologies and market potentials. Kamusiime says that seeing farmers adopt new approaches gives her the greatest satisfaction in her work. For three years, she managed a CARE project that promoted Irish potatoes to farmers in the southwestern district of Kabale. The area is known for potatoes; however, obtaining good quality potato seed twice a year is a common community problem.
I was one of eight women in a class of 48 forestry students,” she recalls. “I had the opportunity to join a study team in the Kabale forest. My professor said to me, ‘You don’t look like a woman who can do this.’ I said to him, “Try me.
Field of Research
Prospects and challenges of agroforestry for food security and household incomes in Kigezi Highlands of western Uganda.

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